Bloggers often face problems elaborating points for their upcoming blog posts. If you often face such problems and most drafts have been discarded just because you cannot complete the post with proper elaboration, this article will be able to help you out by providing ideas on how you can have your points elaborated.
Also, some bloggers don’t have a variety of content elaboration style, making their readers bored after some time, especially if their contents have bad readability and lack of uniqueness.
Preceding from the previous part of 10 Types of Blog Contents Elaboration, I will be giving out another five types of blog contents elaboration which is very easy to learn.
5 More Blog Contents Elaboration Methods
The following will be the 5 elaboration tips which you can use for your upcoming blog post. They are familiar for some but bloggers will not use most of them due to some restrictions which I will show within the points itself.
Rich Media
Rich media includes images, flash applications and videos. Most users will only use images, which could be showing sequential steps or just as an eye-pleasing material. What we want from these media is to add value to our contents and not just performing as an eye-pleasing crap. videos and small applications can easily gain attention from readers due to the visibility of the player or frame.
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Questions
Another way of elaboration will be to start discussions among your readers by asking them questions. Questions can be a great way of elaboration since it will help to create conversations among blog readers and through such discussions, a closer bond can be setup between you and your readers.
When asking questions, try not to ask those which answers are already available within your blog post as it will add no value. Try to ask something that will put your contents as the base of thought. Try to ask something which the answers can be falling both ways. For example, do you think success comes from hard work or luck?
Procedures
Procedures outline the steps to your readers on how to get things done. Some actions, such as how to tie a knot, simple origami, how to make a girl fall for you 
will need step-by-step tutorials. Apart from making up the length, such procedures can be valuable to your readers if that is what they need.
Use a simple and demanding tone, number your steps and provide a video if necessary are some tips on how you can elaborate nicely with procedures for your blog posts.
Personal opinions
In my tips on types of RSS subscribers, I highlighted that bloggers, irregardless of whether you are an A-lister or you just joined the blogosphere for only 6 months, you will have a group of people who form your fan base. What they want from you are not facts, they want your personal opinions on issues and they want to see your style in handling problems.
For personal opinions, don’t go on the extreme side and always leave a room for yourself and your readers unless you have a blogging style that is aggressive or obnoxious right from the first time your readers stumble upon your blog. Just be yourself with opinions. Otherwise, you could find yourself contradicting your own quotes.
Third-Party Generated Quotes
If you don’t have much expertise to voice up too much for a particular topic, the easy way will be to approach experts within your niche and interview them about the subject matter. Most of them will be more than happy to answer you if your questions are not disturbing. It is very easy to do and in fact, I have done this before with Voice Up: One Post To Fame Or Long Term Effort?.
Approach industry experts that are not way up above compared to your class or those you might have interact with before. Ask questions in a straightforward manner and avoid clutter to the message you send. Also, always send the questions much more earlier before the schedule of your blog post as some might not reply you and you will need to seek opinions from others.
Bloggers Elaboration Trend: You Say?
Since I have all the elaboration tips in mind, I don’t have to fear about how to write up a blog post after I have all the points listed. It is such a waste to discard all the points that you have for a blog post and in the end, you need to discard it.
What other types of blog elaboration methods that you use on your blog? What kind of elaboration types that you love reading on other blogs? Do you think bloggers’ approach of listing a huge amount of points (20-100) rather than explaining some vital ones is a positive or negative sign?
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April 10th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I don’t have any favourite type of blog elaboration. As long as the articles fall on my range of interest and triggers my reaction, I’d be happy to comment, stumble or even make a counter post on my blog.
As for listing numerous list of “101 ways to end your life :)” or “500 social media sites with do-follow”, I think it’s better if they were “my 3 practices of a failure suicide so you don’t waste your time trying them” or “5 social networks that build my traffic”. I mean, it’ll be more useful if those things listed came from an experience.
PS: my blogging life isn’t that miserable I’m comitting a suicide :p .
April 10th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Great tips! Your post makes me rethink about my writing style!
April 11th, 2008 at 4:05 am
All good ideas for elaborating in posts. I feel like personal opinions always work well. Readers don’t want lectures. They also want to hear from YOU the blogger. That is what makes a blog unique.
April 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
@ Louis
Very true indeed. This is why blog contents elaboration is so important. I like resource list with over 100 links on it but I guess posts with proper elaboration provide more value to readers.
@ Flimjo
Opinion is important like what you have said. It is important in branding as well because a blogger with a particular tone when writing his blog post will attract certain types of readers.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Blogging nowadays becomes a trend of expression. To top it all, it becomes a venue wherein one can freely express his opinion for a certain topic.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
This is indeed true that personal tone is very important for a blog but if once in a while, a new type of blog content elaboration is being used, it will help keeping the readers away from boredom.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 am
I also wanted to add that seeing both sides of the coin is important to give a balance blog perspective.